Newly Released FBI Documents Support Explosive Claims by Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds

The
earliest document is a November 1999 EC from the FBI’s National
Security Division (NS-2D) to FBI field offices in Chicago, Washington
DC, Los Angeles and New York (although there is a reference to a September 1999 EC from NSD.) The timing is significant. In an article in
The American Conservative by Phil Giraldi, Ms. Edmonds notes that
although there were investigations into Turkish activity dating back to
1996, most of that activity was being monitored by Counter-Intelligence
based on FISA warrants because the main targets were foreigners, however
in 1999 investigations were opened into ‘US Persons‘ and “they
wiretapped the congressmen directly.”

The FBI was obviously concerned about ‘campaign donations’ being paid
to Congressional Representatives by these groups. Ms. Edmonds has
repeatedly referred to certain groups making “different kinds of campaign contributions
– legal and illegal, declared and undeclared” to various
congressional members. Two days after an EC from the National Security Division, Chicago reviewed the Federal
Electoral Commission (FEC) database which contains details of donations
to congressional campaigns. Chicago was apparently interested in
donations made by “three individuals who attended the meeting at TACA.”

The FBI was also interested in the leadership of
TACA. One EC notes that TACA held elections in 2000 and provides a list
of all the newly elected officials. The EC states “Most pertinent to the
above investigations was the fact that REDACTED had been REDACTED.” We
know that Mehmet Celebi was elected President of TACA at that meeting.
Ms. Edmonds has previously referred to Celebi as a key player in the Turkish mafia in the US, noting that
the Celebi family is involved in arms and heroin trafficking. Celebi was
also Vice-President of the Assembly of Turkish-American Associations
(ATAA), another organization named by Ms. Edmonds and others as being
involved in various criminal activities.

In 2008, Celebi briefly received some attention when he was key fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, and was
nominated as one of Clinton’s Chicago delegates to the 2008 Democratic
National Convention. He was eventually kicked
out of the Clinton campaign because of the scrutiny.